Re: [CentOS] how does autofs deal with stuck NFS mounts and suspending to RAM?

2020-05-20 Thread hw
On Tuesday, May 19, 2020 2:22:48 PM CEST Jonathan Billings wrote: > On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 05:36:03PM -0600, Warren Young wrote: > > On May 18, 2020, at 5:13 AM, hw wrote: > > > Is there a better alternative for mounting remote file systems > > > over unreliable > > > connections? > > > > I

Re: [CentOS] how does autofs deal with stuck NFS mounts and suspending to RAM?

2020-05-20 Thread hw
On Tuesday, May 19, 2020 12:28:59 PM CEST isdtor wrote: > > That's what I thought. Should I make a bug report? Sshfs is clearly > > intended to reconnect automatically when mounted like that, and it > > doesn't do that. > Not so clearly. Look at the sshfs reconnect option, and also ssh/ssfs >

Re: [CentOS] how does autofs deal with stuck NFS mounts and suspending to RAM?

2020-05-20 Thread Orion Poplawski
On 5/18/20 5:13 AM, hw wrote: Hi, after trying sshfs to mount a remote file system on a server with the result that sshfs will sooner or later get stuck and require a reboot of the client, I'm fed up with it and am looking for alternatives. So next I would like to use NFS over a VPN connection

Re: [CentOS] how does autofs deal with stuck NFS mounts and suspending to RAM?

2020-05-19 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 05:36:03PM -0600, Warren Young wrote: > On May 18, 2020, at 5:13 AM, hw wrote: > > > > Is there a better alternative for mounting remote file systems > > over unreliable > > connections? > > I don’t have a good answer for you, because if you’d asked me > without all

Re: [CentOS] how does autofs deal with stuck NFS mounts and suspending to RAM?

2020-05-19 Thread isdtor
> That's what I thought. Should I make a bug report? Sshfs is clearly > intended > to reconnect automatically when mounted like that, and it doesn't do that. Not so clearly. Look at the sshfs reconnect option, and also ssh/ssfs ServerAliveInterval/ServerAliveCountMax.

Re: [CentOS] how does autofs deal with stuck NFS mounts and suspending to RAM?

2020-05-19 Thread hw
On Tuesday, May 19, 2020 1:36:03 AM CEST Warren Young wrote: > On May 18, 2020, at 5:13 AM, hw wrote: > > Is there a better alternative for mounting remote file systems over > > unreliable connections? > > I don’t have a good answer for you, because if you’d asked me without all > this backstory

Re: [CentOS] how does autofs deal with stuck NFS mounts and suspending to RAM?

2020-05-18 Thread Warren Young
On May 18, 2020, at 5:13 AM, hw wrote: > > Is there a better alternative for mounting remote file systems over > unreliable > connections? I don’t have a good answer for you, because if you’d asked me without all this backstory whether NFS or SSHFS is more tolerant of bad connections, I’d

[CentOS] how does autofs deal with stuck NFS mounts and suspending to RAM?

2020-05-18 Thread hw
Hi, after trying sshfs to mount a remote file system on a server with the result that sshfs will sooner or later get stuck and require a reboot of the client, I'm fed up with it and am looking for alternatives. So next I would like to use NFS over a VPN connection instead. To minimize the